The incident of cancer is touching more and more lives here in the United and many other parts of the world.  Each of us knows someone who has died from it, is in treatment or is in remission.  I almost never hear of anybody being “cured”.  Then there are those who are the “survivors” of cancer.  Just the term “survivors” conjures up some pretty negative images.  Our society talks as if it is the “war on cancer”, I’m going to “fight” or “battle” this disease or how about “killing” it.

We watch our friends and loved ones who have been diagnosed with this disease and we know the stages they will go through for treatment.  Here in the USA it is pretty standard chemotherapy or targeted chemo or radiation or surgery.  All or any of these might work for awhile but the damage to the rest of the body …